Category United States
Spaced Out: The Last Leg
28 March 2023, Los Angeles, USA – Buoyed by our success at navigating the LA Metro, we planned a longer, more complex excursion. We confidently added day passes onto our TAP cards, and set off for downtown LA – DTLA for short. We could see some snow on the Sierra Nevadas in the background, and […]
Carless in LA
27 March 2023, Los Angeles, USA – It was a late night arrival into LAX after flying half way across the country. We were relieved to check into a reasonably nice, quiet room in Hawthorne, not far from the airport. We woke this morning to blue skies – we seem to be dragging warm weather […]
Carriered Away
25 March 2023, Corpus Christi to Houston, USA – Before driving back to Houston for our final night in Texas, we paid a visit to the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier turned into a museum. We thought we could see everything in about 2 hours, but with 5 decks to explore, including the open flight […]
Bound For Boca Chica
24 March 2023, Houston to Corpus Christi “via” Boca Chica, USA – Yesterday we began our road trip of southern Texas; leaving Houston, we drove about 300 miles south, to Corpus Christi – or more precisely, Ingleside, on the northern outskirts. This was just a repositioning day, to set us up for today. Apart from […]
Orienteering At Last
22 March 2023, Houston, USA – We’re very aware that this blog is meant to chronicle our orienteering adventures, and that so far on this trip, after 6.5 weeks, we’ve done precisely no orienteering. Mostly because of a lack of suitable terrain, unless you fancy thickly vegetated swamps with no contour features but many alligators. […]
A Change of Pace
21 March 2023, Houston, USA, Galveston – Galveston, oh Galveston … the strains of Glenn Campbell’s hit song echoed in our minds as we headed to where Houstoners go on weekends. Apparently they don’t go there during the week – there was almost no traffic and very few people about, despite the fact that it’s […]
Ground Control to Major Tom
20 March 2023, Houston, USA, Johnson Space Center – Today we learned that Ground Control would never have directly communicated with Major Tom … but I’m getting ahead of myself. We were up bright and early for our much anticipated VIP Tour at Johnson Space Center – a behind-the-scenes tour for a group of just […]
Sunday in Houston
19 March 2023, Houston, USA – We had no particular plans for today, other than sleeping in, getting the flat tyre repaired, and doing a bit of souvenir shopping. The tyre repair guy said he would need the car for about 3 hours, so we left it there and set off for a walk. The […]
Houston, We Have So Many Problems!
18 March 2023, Houston, USA, Johnson Space Center – Travel days are always stressful, but this one seemed to be going relatively smoothly; pack up and check out, return the rental car, check in for the flight from Miami to Houston, fly, land, collect luggage, collect next rental car, drive to next accommodation, check in, […]
To The End and Back
16 March 2023, Florida Keys, USA Our goal for today was to drive to the end of US 1, which runs from Nova Scotia in Canada, to Key West at the very bottom of Florida. Of course we were skipping most of it, and starting about 130 miles from the end. The Florida Keys always […]
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